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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

4 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

thwap's schoolyard

The biggest thing that I took away from my recent swim in the fetid swamps of right-wing insanity is that unions are full of thugs. Thugs. Thugs who practice bullying and intimidation. That's it. Nothing else. Thugs. Thugs. Thugs. Corrupt. Corrupt. Corrupt. And if you question that stupid, ...

So, the following videos are pretty much a portrait of the desperate living" quality of your average right-wing mind. But there's also some brilliance there. Look at how easily and carelessly Eunice could have avoided this tragedy. Look at the self-importance of these stunted souls. This isn't m ...

Having immersed myself in the brain-dead culture of right-wing whining and crying for about a week, I realize the extent of their insanity with some more precision. In their world (as I last posted) their is no robocall scandal. Nothing happened. We (leftards) made it all up. There is literally ...

Yep. The "coalition coup" was planned well in advance! There was no reason for it other than a burning lust for power. Also, wanting to know whether we were upholding international law with regards to our transfers of prisoners in Afghanistan was just a smoke-screen to embarrass the harpercon go ...

Nothing else to do. I'll post about two books I read. The first is called Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Willis. Willis says that the trappings of the imperial presidency are almost all the fault of the huge increase in power to that office created by ...

Politics is not such a bad thing when it's funny and the Democratic Senator from Iowa, Tom Harkin, can raise a guffaw now and again. He managed to do so at a breakfast function for Iowa Democrats at the DNC in Charlotte this morning.

Roberto Luongo talked to the Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper Monday and said what some media, Digital Journal included, have said all along: he wants to go to Florida. He spoke to the paper as Scott Clemmensen and Jose Theodore worked out on nearby ice.

Canadians spent more time watching television and television on the Internet and listening to the radio in 2011 than in 2010, according to a new report from a Canadian commission. Consumers also spent more money enjoying this "creative content."

End Homelessness | Change.org

Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...

This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...

What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...

Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...

Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

April 3, 2012 Natural News By Paul Fassa “Adding green super food smoothies to your diet is a great thing to do for your health. There are many amazing benefits of adding more green vegetables in your diet and making smoothies is an easy way to get them in your tummy.” –KTRN Du ...

April 3, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “Here is more proof that drug companies are evil to the core.” –KTRN Four former executives at Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company. — Henry McKinnell, John LaMattina, Karen Katen, Joseph Feczko — as well a ...

April 3, 2012 Natural News By Celeste M. Smucker, MPH, PhD “More evidence that chocolate is quite healthy. But don’t confuse real chocolate over the garbage called Hershey’s.” –KTRN The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 68 percent of adults over the age ...

April 3, 2012 The Onion By The Onion “Even though this is satire, The Onion nailed it – McDonald’s does not serve real food.” –KTRN The McDonald’s Corporation announced Tuesday that it will close 175 restaurants and cut nearly 600 corporate jobs, responding to ...

April 3, 2012 RT By RT “Ron Paul may be the only one who can save the GOP. The party is in complete turmoil these days.” –KTRN Presidential hopeful Ron Paul might not represent what his Republican rivals are touting this election year, but the Texas congressman says that he won ...

Armies of Liberation

Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...

Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...

Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...

As pressure builds on the Obama administration to deny a diplomatic visa to ousted Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the family of a sailor killed in the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole urged that Saleh be denied entry to the United States. In a public plea, Gary and Deborah Swenchonis are c ...

Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...

Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Blum The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990 ...

Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...

Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...

Dandelion Salad

Dandelion Salad Sep 3, 2012 by TheRealNews In Southern Spain, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, mayor of the small town of Marinaleda, is helping organize a growing protest movement against the austerity measures imposed by the Spanish government. Sánchez Gordillo and the landless peasants that foll ...

by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com Originally published September 7, 2009 Sept. 3, 2012 It’s Labor Day, and that means millions of Americans are celebrating. Most Americans have no idea what Labor Day is, other than self-serving political speeches, hot dogs, bu ...

by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post Aug. 31, 2012 Yesterday, after I finished reading McClatchy’s ‘juicy story’ based on some Ex-Polish spy’s recent ‘revelations,’ I kept going back and forth between several theories to explain the ‘real fa ...

Dandelion Salad by Eric Ruder SocialistWorker.org August 30, 2012 THE WORLD economy is still suffering from the worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Around the world, the consequences have been devastating–jobs wiped out, exploitation intensified for those who remain emplo ...

by Shepherd Bliss Guest Writer Dandelion Salad August 31, 2012 “Sustainability” has become a buzzword. But what does “sustainability” really mean? One definition is that it requires a triple-E bottom line—economics, the environment and equity. However, this word sometimes is used to “green-wash” ...

Your New Reality

Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...

This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...

Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...

Wired - Science

The Swedish Warship Vasa never made it out of Stockholm harbor. It sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, and nearly 400 years later, the ship is suffering a slow, inexorable decay in Sweden's Vasa Museum.

Before you down that pint, check the shape of your glass — you might be drinking more beer than you realize. According to a new study of British beer drinkers, an optical illusion caused by the shape of a curved glass can dramatically increase the speed at which we swill.

Tonight's blue moon will dazzle viewers all over the world. But for a truly unique experience, watch this live Slooh Space Camera show to get incredible telescopic close-ups of the lunar surface and a special tribute to Neil Armstrong starting at 3 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. EDT.

Israeli Occupation Archive

IOA Editor: For 50 years now, Matzpen has been the leading anti-occupation, anti-Zionist activist organization in Israel; its new website covers five decades of steadfast, principled opposition to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Time Magazine reports number of American troops in mid-October exercise to be cut by two-thirds, in what a senior Israeli official says is a message of mistrust conveyed by Washington. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...

Our beloved Tel Aviv, whose reputation for enlightenment and openness is world renowned, is built in part on ruined Palestinian villages - and refuses to acknowledge it. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. G ...

The Occupation is the embodiment of disaster for Israel. Greater Israel, the enthusiasm to conquer, rule and colonize in the very heart of a dense Palestinian population, that sweeping wave was... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

The California State Assembly has just passed a bipartisan resolution (HR 35) by voice vote which constitutes a serious attack on academic freedom and the rights of students and faculty to raise... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

NewsWise

Children who swallow powerful neodymium magnets are at risk of serious complications, requiring emergency evaluation and possible treatment. That's the message of a new clinical algorithm published in the September issue of The Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, official journ ...

An educational program for parents helps to reduce pressure on children to eat--which may reduce the child's risk of obesity, reports a study in the September Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, the official journal of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. The j ...

When one thinks of a "quote," words of wisdom usually come to mind. But in talking about an annual campaign with Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company that benefits The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), the word "quote" takes on a different meaning - one with impact on saving lives. Throug ...

Even though anesthetics have been used in many procedures for more than 150 years, doctors and scientists still don't know exactly how these medicines work in the body. Researchers funded by the NIH have helped identify and explore different aspects of anesthesia, and here are a few things they' ...

Natural Health News

Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...

Climategate

Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com

What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...

Opinio Juris

by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has said that Iran can strike US bases in the Middle East if Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. In other Hezbollah news, the group ponders an uncertain future if one of its two closest allies, Presi ...

by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Rebels have hit army headquarters in Damascus planting bombs targeting high-level officers. More US drone strikes in Yemen kill at least eight, including five suspected of having al-Qaeda ties, while a Yemeni warplane missed its intended target and killed 10 ...

by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Rebels have hit army headquarters in Damascus planting bombs targeting high-level officers. More US drone strikes in Yemen kill at least eight, including five suspected of having al-Qaeda ties, while a Yemeni warplane missed its intended target and killed 10 ...

by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers The Southern Illinois University Law Journal is seeking scholarly legal articles from newer legal scholars for possible inclusion in a special Symposium issue, Guantanamo Bay: What Next?, on legal issues arising from the continued detention ...

by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers The Southern Illinois University Law Journal is seeking scholarly legal articles from newer legal scholars for possible inclusion in a special Symposium issue, Guantanamo Bay: What Next?, on legal issues arising from the continued detention ...

Poll: AZ Remains in Top Third of States for Food Hardship PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona remains in the top third of states for food hardship in a Gallup survey about families' health and well-being. The findings confirm what Arizona food banks see every day as they help cobble together assistance for ...

GOP Courts Women's Vote at Convention TAMPA, Fla. - With President Obama leading in the polls among women voters and gaffes such as the “legitimate rape” comment to overcome, political strategists say the Republican National Committee is working hard to court women voters. Democrats ...

Young People Work to Boost Latino AZ Primary Turnout PHOENIX - Hundreds of young Latino volunteers with the group "Promise Arizona in Action" (PAZ in Action) have spent the summer registering more than 8,400 new voters across the state. During today's primary election, they are making sure those ...

What You Might Not Know About Generic Drugs PHOENIX - Across the country, dozens of lawsuits against manufacturers of generic drugs have been dismissed because of a decision by the Supreme Court a year ago that makes it all but impossible to sue the firms for failing to provide adequate warning ...

Center for Food Safety

Groups and producers pleased with court ruling, damage to local growers temporarily averted The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) failed to provide adequate justification for a temporary rule issued earlier this month that would have allowed the un ...

Food Safety and Modernization Act rules unlawfully delayed as risks increase, public health threatened The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) today filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for their failure to im ...

Proposed AC21 “co-existence” policy would harm conventional growers, endanger U.S. organic industry The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) issued a position paper today critical of proposals made by the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21), a group appointed ...

By Michele Simon Rarely does the mainstream media bother to connect the dots when it comes to our broken food safety system. Consider these two recent headlines: • Foodborne Outbreaks Falling Short of U.S. Reduction Goals • USDA to purchase $170 million worth of meat to help farmers struggling w ...

The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) is pleased to announce that the legal action filed yesterday at the State of Oregon’s Court of Appeals requesting an immediate stay on illegal planting of genetically engineered (GE) canola in the Willamette Valley was successful. The Court found suffici ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...

Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...

Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Pensieve

I had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...

For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...

I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...

I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...

An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“, asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...

Green Times

Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...

Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...

Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...

Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...

Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...

We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...

in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...

June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...

Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...

Politics in the Zeros

In a detailed post showing serious understanding of Marxism, Gary North presents the basic tenets of Marxism then shows how Obama isn’t even slightly Marxist.He also traces Obama’s docility and compliance to corporate power back to the early 1990′s when he and Michelle were bot ...

The whispers are growing louder. Will Morgan Stanley, which has huge exposure in Europe, collapse soon?The stock price of Morgan Stanley inches from its Armageddon lows of Oct. 2008, whispers of the imminent overnight collapse of this U.S. broker-dealer begin to surface.The Fed will no doubt int ...

“Say a prayer for the common foot soldier Spare a thought for his back breaking work Spare a part for his wife and his children Who burn the fires and who still till the earth … Raise your glass to the hard working people Let’s drink to the uncounted heads Let’s think of ...

Meerkats train to be photographers at the new EU sanctuaryPolizeros friend and EU journalist Andy Carling proposes becoming Chief Happiness Officer for EU institutions in an effort to banish current gloomy spirits. His innovative and bold plans include keeping bars open for journalists during al ...

As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...

On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...

Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...

This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying&#822 ...

What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012! The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...

What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted / regulated. By the time regular folks find out it will ...

The Air Vent

Calculated galactic formation. This is just way too good to miss: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/17/scientists-create-universe-simulation/ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/research/movingmeshcosmology/index.html

From Cryosphere Today: Seeing the yellow line drop so far below the historic curves with much of the melt season ahead of us means we are probably on the way to a new record minimum for the Northern hemisphere. Correspondingly, NH Sea ice anomaly is approaching the second lowest value in histo ...

It seems as always, I don’t have much time. I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls. This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...

Focal Point

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...

Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...

Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

Entertainment continues to dominate the list of most popular Facebook pages, according to our PageData tool, which counts the number of fans added to a page daily. After Facebook’s own pages for its mobile app and main company page, the most Liked pages … Continue reading →

Facebook has launched the new Notifications API beta giving developers a way to reengage users with custom messages through the native notifications channel. These notifications are different from app requests in that users do not need to allow further permissions to … Continue reading →

Facebook has updated its integrity systems in order to prevent false Likes, according to the Facebook Security page. This upgrade looks to improve the authenticity of the social network, providing pages with more accurate measurement of fan counts and demographics. … Continue reading →

This is a guest post by Hussein Fazal, CEO of AdParlor, an ad management and technology company for Facebook campaigns. AdParlor manages over 1 billion daily ad impressions on Facebook for clients such as Groupon, Audi, American Express, OMD, Mindshare & … Continue reading →

Bing has added a new feature which allows users to search through their friends’ Facebook photos directly within the search engine. Users can access this through the Bing social sidebar or at www.bing.com/friendsphotos. With a reported 300 million photos uploaded to … Continue readin ...

ReDress News

Alan Hart outlines a strategy for saving the Palestinian cause from extinction: making Israel accountable for its occupation by dissolving the quisling Palestinian Authority and exposing Zionism's propaganda, and mobilizing Palestinians everywhere to engage by peaceful and democratic means in th ...

Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's bizarre letter to the Middle East "Quartet", in which he accused the Palestinian Authority of "diplomatic terrorism", is a symptom of an attention-seeking disorder rooted in the fact that Lieberman is underemployed.

Jamal Kanj argues that Israeli expansionism and Western connivance with and complacency towards Israel's land grabbing - not the Palestinian quest for state recognition at the UN - are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...

Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...

Amazon Rainforest

Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...

The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...

Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...

The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...

Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Etta James- “I Sing The Blues” This week’s BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast music pick is a song from the phenomenal late Etta James. There’s not much I can say about Ms James that hasn’t already been said so tonight her music will say it all. I hope you enjoy this performance of ...

Yesterday, after I finished reading McClatchy’s ‘juicy story’ based on some Ex-Polish spy’s recent ‘revelations,’ I kept going back and forth between several theories to explain the ‘real factors and purposes’ behind this entire nonsense. Of course, in coming up with my possible ‘possibilities’ ...

The shootings and bombings in Ingushetia and Dagestan this week rekindled a long-standing, brutal campaign of violence and terrorism in Russia’s Caucasus region – one that has seen more than its share of terror stretching back to the Chechen “rebellion” of the 1990s. However, in examining the r ...

The Empire of Terror To know the history of your own nation, you must know the history of those whom your nation has oppressed. This episode takes a brief look at some of the stories of modern American imperialism in the post-World War II period, looking at Indonesia, Central America, and the ro ...

Formalized under the so-called ANZUS treaty in 1951, the military alliance between Australia and the United States has long defined Australia’s role in the security context of the Asia-Pacific region. Formed in the wake of World War II when memories of Japanese aggression in the Pacific we ...

Afro Spear

“It’s so amazing to me that so many of us speak of unity, yet we are to assume we know what is meant by unity and unification. The word is never clearly defined by the user. In the between time, there is a mean spirited tone to the discussion that should be avoided if we [...]

Repost inspired by this commentary from Sis. Carolyn Moon: “The difference that I’m noticing more now and it’s a perception which I’m sure can be debated but there is this extreme animus towards the various countries on the continent of Africa and their historical role in promoting the tri ...

Expose the BNP

Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...

A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...

The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...

On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...

On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...

What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...

In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...

Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...

Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

There was a time when the "great" thinkers of the Middle Ages proclaimed that animals were mere automatons. Thankfully, we have moved forward since then- not nearly enough for most of us. Pope John Paul II admitted that animals have "souls" - and certainly it should be evident in the stories o ...

Petroleum companies, frackers, nuclear energy corps pay for expensive ads; the 'news' will not do exposes on the MSMs' highest paying advertisers. Wallsteet, banks, candidates Citizen's United pay big advertising money to the MSM; in return the MSM demonize Occupy and coddle advertisers. There i ...

After staying virtually dormant for years, the 51 year-old Non-Aligned Movement of 120 countries took a center stage in Tehran last week which perhaps put on hold Iran's prolonged diplomatic isolation.The summit adopted a document that condemned unilateral sanctions, backed the right of Iran and ...

No proposal is under consideration to hand over Dr Shakeel Afridi, who helped CIA in Osama Ben Laden compound raid in May 2011, to the United States, says chief of Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

Switchboard

Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC *Please Note: NRDC's weekly Latin America news round-up will not be posted for the next two weeks, as our staff will be traveling. We will return on the week of Sept. 17-21. Thanks for reading! ...

Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica On August 7, LADWP adopted guiding principles for the development and implementation of its energy efficiency portfolio. The resolution commits LADWP to "aggr ...

Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Although the federal and state governments have an integral role when it comes to planning and preparing for the impacts of a changing climate, cities are the ones on the front lines. Municipali ...

Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco One week from tomorrow, the eleven riders that make up Team NRDC will embark on Climate Ride, a 320-mile bicycle journey that starts near Eureka and makes its way down the North C ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

That’s the effect of the Obama administration’s final determination that no official, high or petty, should be held accountable for the Bush administration’s institutionalized torture regime. Laws on the books are beside the point if it’s clear they can be violated with i ...

It appears that years of breathless warnings of an impending Israeli attack on Iran have had effects beyond making Michael Oren look like a liar and Jeffrey Goldberg a credulous fool: As the Washington Post’s editorial board noted after the IAEA report’s release, “What’s particularly striking ab ...

As most of you know, my brand of film theory is heavily indebted to David Bordwell and neoformalism. So it should come as no surprise that I believe Bordwell’s compilation of posts from 2012 could very well function as an online film theory textbook, especially when read in tandem with sim ...

Desert Research Institute

The Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.

The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.

Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.

Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.

The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.

National Law Journal | U.S.

National security and the rule of law are sometimes at odds, but a new center at the University of Pennsylvania Law School seeks to shine a light on hot-button issues including cyber warfare and targeting killings.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has revived a civil rights suit brought by an Illinois junior high school teacher against a school district and officials for forcing him to resign after he reported a student's threat to the police.

In a dispute over who should serve as the next Louisiana Supreme Court chief justice, a federal judge has ruled for Associate Justice Bernette Johnson, who would become the first black jurist to preside over the court.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]

I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...

I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...

From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

The case, Hightower v. Boston, arose out of the revocation of a license to carry a handgun in public in Massachusetts. During the oral arguments before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Hightower's attorney, Alan Gura, was asked if his was an 'Open

According to Ms. Rice, she was always struck by two things about the former leader: Meles was consistently reasoned in his judgments and thoughtful in his decisions; and, he was driven not by ideology but by his vision of a better future

Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope, as pointed out in the State Department's statement, that the United States will take the appropriate measures in order to resolve the essential humanitarian issues such as water,

environment 360

A new study has found record levels of DDT in the breast milk of nursing women living in South African villages where the toxic pesticide has been used for decades. In samples taken from women in three malaria-stricken villages where spraying occurs inside homes, researchers found that DDT level ...

One quarter of Liberia’s total land area has been sold to logging companies over the last two years, a development that threatens widespread devastation in West Africa’s most heavily forested nation, a new investigation has found. According to a report by Global Witness, Save My Future Foundatio ...

This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock. These extreme events were not freak occurrences – this is how the Earth works no ...

Danish scientists say they have developed a process to detect the presence of fish and whales in local waters through the DNA analysis of water samples, an innovation that will help researchers more safely monitor biodiversity in the world’s oceans. Using sophisticated DNA sequencing technology, ...

The incandescent light bulb, in use for more than a century, will be officially banned across the European Union on September 1. Over the past three years, the Wikimedia Commons EU has been phasing out 60-watt and 100-watt incandescent bulbs, and on Saturday retailers will no longer be all ...

Red Ice Creations

You may wonder how did he make himself a pair of bionic hands when he actually doesn’t have hands. Well, he just did it. He named Sun Jifa, a 51-year-old Chinese man who lost both hands when he was building a bomb for blast fishing. Since the prosthetic limbs would cost a fortune, he decided to ...

Ecuador’s foreign minister announced on Thursday that the country would grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, defying threats by the British government to storm the Ecuadorean Embassy and extradite Assange to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning in cases of alleged rape and sex ...

In late 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder authorized raids against marijuana dispensaries in California, where medicinal marijuana is legal, in an effort to create a distraction from the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, a new book set for release Tuesday claims. “Eri ...

Critics say show promotes an “inglorious tradition of glorifying war and armed violence” Nine Nobel Peace Laureates on Monday joined a growing chorus of critics calling on NBC entertainment to cancel the new “reality” show—“Stars Earn Stripes”—saying that “war isn’t entertainment” and challenged ...

Some accuse evolution of being pretty directionless. After all, the whole process involves random genetic mutations. But if evolution is just a toss of a million-sided die, why do so many animals turn out eerily similar? Nope, it’s not intelligent design. We take a look at the creepy look-alikes ...

A hacktivist group associated with Anonymous claims it has lifted over 12 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) from an FBI computer and released 1 million of them as an archive. The leaked data includes... Read Full Article at RT.com

Residents of the Czech city of Liberec can now not only “ooh” and “ah” over three rare white Bengal tiger cubs happily playing next to their mother. They have a chance to choose a name for one of the cubs, recently born... Read Full Article at RT.com

US Navy SEALs have reportedly been taken off active duty as a consequence of the leaked firsthand account “No Easy Day” about the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan which resulted in his death. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

The modern US army: unfit for service? …’Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.’ We’ve been pointing this out for some time now, and it’s nice to see ...

The repulsive Korean Christian sect nut has died. ‘In 2003 he provoked outrage when he used a sermon to condone the Holocaust, claiming that it was the Jews’ payment for killing Jesus.’ (from news report that 'Moonies' founder Sun Myung Moon dies at 92)

One cannot think of a more disgusting military in the Americas than that of the country of Guatemala for the US to be cooperating with in joint operations! US Out of Guatemala Now! Marines vs. Zetas: U.S. Hunts Drug Cartels in Guatemala The internal journals of the US Marine Corps have been brag ...

Debunking the Debunkers

A shout out to the Infowarriors and WeAreChange chapters from WeAreChangeColorado! For Derek and the boys at Houston Free Thinkers. Get to New York! Related: The goal of this website is to hopefully encourage activists, politicians, celebrities, whistleblowers, alternative media, truthers ...

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Published on Aug 26, 2012 by Free Fall Following up last week's show, which covered reports of explosions at the World Trade Center on 9/11, Bernie and Andy's guest this week is Graeme MacQueen-- widely respected peace activist, and the author of various 9/11 related papers, including "118 Wit ...

It's been 11 years since nearly 3 thousand people were murdered that tragic day in New York City. Officially they say 19 Muslims hijacked planes and attacked us because they hate our freedoms. However, since 2001 there have been many questions that have been raised and not answered. The 9/11 Com ...

Yes, Ventura has endorsed the theory that Directed Energy Weapons were used to demolish the buildings on 9/11 and the theory that the plane that hit the Pentagon actually flew over it while a bomb exploded, and no he doesn't always have all his facts as straight as we like around here. That ...

Traffikd

Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...

When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]

Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...

So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Greg Palast

by Greg Palast If you're not sick and outraged and ready to vomit, then don't talk to me. When I see a cruel bucket of garbage and winky-winky racism and bullshit and venom like Paul Ryan talk to America like he's some kind of Boy Scout, I want a gun, or a TV network where I can [...]

by Greg Palast for Truth-out.org "Tim Griffin should be in jail." That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review. But Griffin's not in jail: he's in Congress. And Tuesday, he'll be the first Congressman the Republican ...

"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel w ...

Get the DVD of Greg Palast LIVE from the Vultures' Picnic speaking tour. Undercover at the Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast rips the sheets off the One Percent. Palast shows you the documents marked "secret" and "confidential" from the files of Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, the IMF, WTO ...

Print me out, use me, spread me around! 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits 1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

(Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...

Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...

Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]

Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...

Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

By Lin Wessels You know, I get discouraged sometimes with my government, with my president, with my countrymen and women, with my country as whole. I suppose it is a natural thing. We all want a better life, especially when...

On September 8th in Chicago, we parents of children with numerous health issues, will be honoring Dr. Anju Usman, to recognize the outstanding medical care she has provided to thousands of children with complex medical issues and support her ability...

In this election year, we will showcase the happenings on "both sides of the aisle." Neither party has been much help to the autism community - each from their own perspective. Labor Day is an often overlooked holiday, seen more...

Note: From the GreenMedFoundation, "Education Equals Empowerment," comes this sober report on the great lengths and dollars going to protect the pharmaceutical industry. Read the full story HERE. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation launched the Grand Challenges in Global...

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation launched the Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) in partnership with the National Institutes of Health in 2003 which, according to the GCGH website, is aimed at "creating new tools that can radically improve...

Farm Wars

All species that feed off of others want a monopoly, and Monsanto and Goldman Sachs are no different. They don’t like to share their food supply, and we are on the table, dressed up like Thanksgiving turkeys. They feed off our ignorance, and if we do not recognize the deceptions they use, we can ...

Open Your Eyes News

BBC – Chinese officials have told pharmaceutical firms to check their suppliers after claims that some have used “gutter oil” to make antibiotics, state-run media report. Officials are looking into firms that reportedly use the cheaper gutter oil rather than the more expensive ...

NY Times – With Israel openly debating whether to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months, the Obama administration is moving ahead with a range of steps short of war that it hopes will forestall an Israeli attack, while forcing the Iranians to take more seriously negotiat ...

Deutsche Welle – German engineering firm TimberTower seeks to revolutionize the design of conventional wind power plants, making its turbine towers from wood. The construction reaches new dimensions in height and cost-efficiency. This revolutionary wind-turbine mast construction is still i ...

How can you sell the seeming unsellable? How can you pursuade the public that Iran has WMD’s when clearly you were caught lying less than a decade ago over Iraq? Welcome to the twisted logic of Problem, Reaction, Solution. To find out more CLICK HERE

L.A. Times - Greenspace

One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.

Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Th ...

As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...

Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...

water.org

It seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.

Subscribe to the official Water.org YouTube channel to be among the first to see our weekly videos. These shorts, which provide a glimpse of life in the heart of the water crisis, can help give a face to a world-wide struggle.

Join co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White on a recent visit to Haiti following up on our promise to help 50,000 people get safe water. The video ends with Matt, along with his father and brother, celebrating the opening of a new well with a community in the Central Plateau.

No matter how many times one visits the developing world, it seems there is always another shocking image around every corner. Last week in Port-au-Prince we followed several people to collect water. After traversing a trash-lined creek bed and about 300 meters from the road we came across this ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World |&nb ...

In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World |&nb ...

Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again. Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more

Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again. Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...

The case, Hightower v. Boston, arose out of the revocation of a license to carry a handgun in public in Massachusetts. During the oral arguments before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Hightower's attorney, Alan Gura, was asked if his was an 'Open

According to Ms. Rice, she was always struck by two things about the former leader: Meles was consistently reasoned in his judgments and thoughtful in his decisions; and, he was driven not by ideology but by his vision of a better future

Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope, as pointed out in the State Department's statement, that the United States will take the appropriate measures in order to resolve the essential humanitarian issues such as water,

Worldnews

Thousands of students are already back in school. Thousands more will return this week. But Toronto Sun columnist Dahlia Kurtz has a concern. She thinks the explosion of technology has lowered the standards for school-age children. She writes: âWhile there are positives to the proliferation ...

Related topics food safetyHealth & FitnessOrganic LifestyleHouseholdhealthy livingGardening Advertisement A newly-released study by Stanford University sifted through data from 223 research papers in an effort to compare organic and conventionally grown food. They found that organically ...

Tweet London, September 4 (ANI): Women are not wrong if they think they can better decorate a house than their husbands, and men can also boast about their computer gaming skills. Scientists say women are better able to tell fine differences between colours, but men are better at keeping an ...

Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy

Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

The illegal elephant ivory trade is reaching record levels and “Africa is in the midst of an epic elephant slaughter,” reports the New York Times. As demand for elephant ivory grows in China, more and more poachers, including some of Africa’s most infamous armed groups, are kil ...

A 'catastrophe affecting tens of millions' and repeat of the 2007-2008 world food crisis must be prevented with urgent action, UN agencies stated on Tuesday.A drought-hit corn field in Kentucky. (photo: CraneStation / Flickr) read more

Reports over the weekend saw some of the world's most powerful financial institutions accused of profiteering on the backs of the world's poorest people and those most vulnerable to the wild price fluctuations caused by over-rampant speculation on the price of food commodities like wheat ...

On a day set aside to honor the sacrifices and accomplishments of organized labor in the US, this Labor Day, according to many observers, may well be noted as the one in modern history where labor unions looked around and found the fewest reasons to cheer. ...

Energy Collective

Last week the Australian Government and the European Commission announced that their respective emission trading systems would link up progressively over Phase III of the EU system, but for Australian entities from the start of full carbon allowance trading in 2015. This is a bold move by both p ...

In the beginning, the Master Economist created the Economy. He created businesses large and small, consumers, governments with their regulation, and financial institutions of all types. And the Master Economist declared that the economy should grow. And it did grow, but only for a while. T ...

Green House - USA Today

How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.

What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.

Peoples Voice

by Stephen Lendman Palestine belongs to Palestinians. They're willing to settle for what lies within 1967 borders. It's 22% of what they lost. They also rightfully claim East Jerusalem as their capital. It's theirs, not Israel's. Israeli settlements are illegal. This article discusses M ...

by Stephen Lendman America's special relationship with Israel too often reflects the tail wagging the dog. Increasingly, the Jewish state is more strategic liability than asset. The Israeli Lobby has a virtual stranglehold on US foreign policy. Blunt pressure is applied to get Washington ...

By James Petras Only 43 days before the Venezuelan presidential election and with President Chavez leading by a persistent margin of 20 percentage points, an explosion and fire at the Amuay refinery killed at least 48 people - half of those were members of the National Guard – and destroy ...

by Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. America is directly or indirectly responsible for most world conflicts. Across North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, it plays the lead role. Afghanistan has been occupied for nearly 11 years. US air and ground attacks murder civilians daily. ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations. The Alternative Budget contains 65 action item ...

Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...

The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979. Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...

In an article entitled "Crime and the Decline of Unions," economics professors Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts estimate the elasticity of crime with respect to union membership. They contend that the drop in US union membersh ...

The final report of the proposal committee for a new union combining the CAW and CEP contains many intriguing ideas, not least being the 5 regional councils, funded by a separate per capita levy, that give the new union the feel of a labour central. All local unions in each region will be ...

World Wide Hippies

By Ars Moriendi,WWH/CJE – Can someone please explain to me why it is that this whole voter ID law feels so much like cheating? I won’t claim brilliance in the area of voter laws. To date I have only voted and helped other sign up to vote in my home state of South Carolina, thousands [...]

by Zack Whittaker and Charlie Osborne,cnet.com – Bruce Willis may not challenge Apple to who owns his iTunes collection after his death, but one question remains: What does happen to your downloaded music collection once you fly to the sky? Earlier today, a story emerged from the British t ...

From survivalinternational.org – A recent investigation by Brazil’s Indian affairs department FUNAI has uncovered shocking evidence that illegal loggers are rapidly closing in on the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe, sparking fears for their safety. Only three weeks ago, a government tea ...

Gaza teenager burns himself to death in poverty protest GAZA (Reuters) – A young man has died after setting himself on fire in the Gaza Strip, apparently in protest at economic hardship in the Palestinian enclave, the man’s family and police said on Monday. Ehab Abu Nada, 18, left hi ...

Hunger Games: The price of feeding the world Have banks been speculating on food markets and could this contribute to pushing millions into hunger and poverty? The World Development Movement, a UK-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has accused Barclays Bank of profiting from world hunger ...

FourWinds10

(NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...

Crisis Maven

The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...

The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...

As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...

As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...

Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...

The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...

In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...

No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

While U.S. gasoline prices have been on the rise for the past two months -- and are presently $0.15/gallon higher than they were a year ago -- Robert Rapier expects that gasoline prices will start to fall rapidly in the weeks ahead.

In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first is on California’s upcoming carbon trading markets, which includes a discussion on resource shuffling. The second question is on the potential of thorium nuclear reactors. Readers who have specifi ...

Following Mitt Romney’s release of his energy plan, I intended to offer a detailed critique. However, there are already numerous critiques out there that would not differ much from my own. My critique would have been a near mirror image of Michael Levi’s Pipe Dreams at Foreign Policy ...

Following last year’s ASPO conference, I was interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future, which is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. Aaron just made that interview available, and instead of an R-Squared Energy TV epis ...

The history of cellulosic ethanol is a lot longer than most people probably realize. The Germans first commercialized cellulosic ethanol production from wood in 1898. The technology was commercialized in the U.S. in 1910, when Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in South Ca ...

Rodale News

About 12 percent of U.S. women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at some point in their lives. Increasingly, researchers are pointing out a connection between environmental chemicals and breast cancer. The latest evidence comes as two separate studies find a link between breast canc ...

Lyme disease is a complicated infection, tough to diagnose and even harder to treat if doctors miss an early diagnosis, which is all too often the case. Lyme disease treatment is tricky because the most popular blood tests used in most doctors' offices to detect the disease miss about 55 percen ...

So-called "superweeds" are taking over American farmland. Impervious to chemical herbicides, like Roundup (the most widely used herbicide in the U.S.), these weeds don't die when exposed to chemicals. Instead, they just grow taller and thicker and become so sturdy, they've been known ...

The generation that spawned Woodstock and free love didn't completely abandon its ideals during the "Me Decade" of the '80s. Baby boomers are among the nation's largest percentage of vegetarians, according to a recent survey out from the Vegetarian Resource Group. The survey, given t ...

How do you get a huge fast-food chain to make a major shift in its environmental policies? Sick a precocious, Internet-savvy 10-year-old on it, and just wait for it to see the error of its ways. It worked in California! One day this past summer, Mia Hansen's mom took her to Jamba Juice, her fa ...

big think

Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Brooklyn-based Singularity & Co has taken it upon itself to bring forgotten science fiction books back from the virtual dead by tracking down copyright holders and getting permission to republish them i ...

Who is the “Power Woman?” In our recent Power Woman Deep Dive report, we explored the Content Network, or dynamic web of cultural activity that makes up the world of the Power Woman: The modern Power Woman is strong minded and balances traditionally feminine qualities wit ...

When is a nudge a nuisance? Thanks in large part to the work of Richard Thaler, an economist at the University of Chicago, the science of "nudging" - getting people to make choices based on how their options are presented - has become all the rage in business and government. Nudging is nothing ...

Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Last month Ethiopian Airlines became the first commercial airline outside of Japan to operate a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a passenger jet that seats up to 290 people and is 20 percent more fuel-efficient than ...

Every election comes with questions, ranging from the serious (How will we fix the economy?) to the ludicrous (Was he born in this country?). But this election season, artist Barbara Kruger is asking the open-ended questions that this election (and every election) must answer in her exhibition ...

Information Liberation

Prince George's County, Maryland police officer Corporal Donald Taylor, a 13-year-veteran, claimed that after catching up to an aggressive youth who swung at him and began to flee, the youth reached for his gun, at which point he fired his gun at t...

A video clip shot yesterday at Columbus Ohio Airport illustrates how the Transportation Security Administration has dreamed up a bizarre new way to waste time and taxpayer dollars * by testing drinks purchased by travelers for explosives inside the...

Inside Story - Hunger Games: the price of feeding the world We discuss the reasons for the increasing cost of food and what is being done to curb record highs. Teymoor Nabili discusses with Christine Haigh, Peter Schiff, & Aly Khan Satchu....

Luke Rudkowski talks to The Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson who claims he doesn't know anything about the NDAA. Follow Luke @ http://www.twitter.com/lukewearechange Become a WeAreChange Sponsor and get exclusive behind the scenes conte...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →

Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →

The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →

A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →

The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

According to stats prof David Spiegelhalter, whom I met for the first time only this year, “Our survival is governed by the “force of mortality” – the wonderfully archaic expression for the chance of dying each year. Each year, an average adult ages, this unavoidable forc ...

From the Kickstarter blurb: “A spectrometer may not sound like what you wanted for your birthday, but it’s a ubiquitous tool for scientists to identify unknown materials” The open hardware kit is just $35 or you could make your own from a piece of a DVD-R, black paper, a VHS bo ...

My latest clutch of science news is now available on SpectroscopyNOW.com including the first feedback from NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars, MRI’s magnetic memory effects, how the all-carbon buckyball traps water, a new way to detect even the vaguest sniff off the explosive TNT, a clea ...

A bit of parental-adolescent psychology for today’s Sciencebase blog post, encapsulated in a song. You’ll remember The Undertones’ classic – Teenage Kicks – a song of nostalgia, of lost youth, of unrequited love, of the pleasure, the pain, the angst of teenage years ...

A bit of parental-adolescent psychology for today’s Sciencebase blog post, encapsulated in a song. You’ll remember The Undertones’ classic – Teenage Kicks – a song of nostalgia, of lost youth, of unrequited love, of the pleasure, the pain, the angst of teenage years ...

National Park System Science Board Advisory Committee http://www.nps.gov/calltoaction/PDF/LeopoldReport_2012.pdf [National Parks Traveler] Climate change, biodiversity, and the current state and understanding of ecosystem management all were unknown to A. Starker Leopold 50 years ago when he ove ...

ICF International for New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2012/icf_natural_gas_study.pdf [WNYC] As the state weighs whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come out in favor of the controversial technique ...

US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/assumptions/ This report presents the major assumptions of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) used to generate the projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2012, including general features of the model ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / by Sebastian Rausch and John Reilly http://globalchange.mit.edu/research/publications/2328 [Green Car Congress] A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change sugge ...

Scientific American - News

Scientific American partnered with grassroots organization ScienceDebate.org earlier this summer to encourage the two main presidential candidates--Barack Obama and Mitt Romney--to answer 14 questions on some of the biggest scientific and technological challenges facing th ...

First Truths

Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...

From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...

Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...

From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...

I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - Buoyed on by temperatures fitting an endless weekend, encouraged by the smell of b-b-q and tantalized by the sounds of Joe Murphy and the Water Street Blues Band, Haligonians descended by the hundreds t ...

Non-Indigenous participate in Confederacy Gathering for first time in centuries. St. Mary's First Nation, Unceded Wabanaki Territory (New Brunswick) – On September 1st and 2nd, for the first time in several hundre ...

(first published in Basicsnews.ca) “The place is hot like hell, especially in the summer time at night, bad ventilation, a lot of humidity and of course machines emitting heat doesn’t help.’ said Iain*, a temporary worker at an auto parts plant in the Toronto area. &ldquo ...

David Seaton's News Links

"This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama." @jabouie tweet re Eastwood's speech (ht Doonesbury)Clint Eastwood’s performance was the most decadent, self indulgent thing I have ever seen. Watching him wank for 12 minutes to wild ap ...

At the center of all the nuttiness of today’s Republicans is their bankrollers’ fear of regulation… The ceaseless culture warfare is merely a tactic to simultaneously attract and confuse a sufficient number of the ignorant to enable the “one-percenters” to paralyze the political process.Examined ...

In the withered heart of Any Rand’s world, the weak, the hungry, The violated, the broken, the disorganized are condemned, They have no brothers Unlettered children, tiny, lonely, light-starved beings, Like mushrooms fed on excrement, are free: Free to sicken, free to die. In unhe ...

My favorite description of the Democratic Party is Woody Allen's restaurant; you know the one, “such bad food and such small portions”.The American political system is corrupt and both political parties are part of the problem and in my opinion only a massive citizen’s movement similar to the Ci ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

From Paul Ryan, on the stump in North Carolina yesterday: In 1980 under Jimmy Carter, 330,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy. Last year, under President Obama’s failed leadership, 1.4 million businesses filed for bankruptcy. It turns out this isn't true. In 1980 there were 43,000 ...

Here's a fascinating little factlet. The New York Times reports today that most big prosecutions under America's anti-bribery law are against foreign companies. Siemens, for example, paid a fine of $800 million even though it's a German company and the bribes in question were paid to Argentini ...

Ramesh Ponnuru writes today that if Barack Obama wins reelection, nothing will change. Republicans will not feel chastened one bit. Instead, they'll conclude that they can't win with a faux conservative like Romney, and will spend the next four years amping up the obstruction machine while the ...

Are Republicans—and in particular, Paul Ryan—dedicated deficit hawks? Let's make this simple. Here's a timeline: 2001-08: Republicans, including Ryan, repeatedly vote to increase the deficit during the George Bush administration. This includes votes in favor of two huge tax ...

Dylan Byers reports today on an open secret: the 2012 campaign is a relentless, joyless exercise in trench warfare, and reporters hate it. So what's the solution? Some reporters believe it is just a matter of waiting out 2012 in hopes that 2016 will see the return of 2008-level excitement....O ...

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Simple Climate

Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan

With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.

Higher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support

2000-2004 western US drought was worst in 800 years, but will become normal in future, reversing the region’s absorption of CO2 and worsening climate change, says Christopher Schwalm from Northern Arizona University

e!Science News

Released en masse, sterile Mexican fruit flies can undermine a wild population of the fruit-damaging pests so that fewer applications of insecticide are needed. But the irradiation used to sterilize the flies weakens them, hindering their ability to outcompete wild-type males for female mates. ...

A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows promise for developing ultrastable RNA nanoparticles that may help treat cancer and viral infections by regulating cell function and binding to cancers without harming surrounding tissue. read more

The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between co ...

Witch hunts are common and sometimes deadly in the tea plantations of Jalpaiguri, India. But a surprising source -- small groups of women who meet through a government loan program -- has achieved some success in preventing the longstanding practice, a Michigan State University sociologist found ...

U.S. lax about chemicals used in oil and gas operations In April 2010, a national nightmare began with a blowout into the Gulf of Mexico. But the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill were just th ...

Brave New Climate

SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...

This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...

This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...

This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...

The following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...

Indigenist Opinion

Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...

Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...

Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Republicans are a Disease

Of the many things that bother me about Republicans, is the fact that they don’t care if they are being lied to. All facts support my positions, and I am never wrong about anything. Numbers matter. Facts matter. The truth is the truth whether it fits my ideology or not. All of my statement ...

“Are you better off” is all you are going to hear from Republicans the next few days, or weeks. It seems they have been sabotaging our recovery for 3 1/2 years just so they can use this line of attack. Republicans have done everything they possibly could to make sure President Obama ...

So Mitt in his convention speech claimed he wanted President Obama to succeed. Sure you did Mitt. And President Obama was going to have an easy time succeeding with the full support of Republican Senators right? Republican Senators making sure he is not successful in any way, and filibustering a ...

I heard speaker after speaker at the convention talk about how hard their, or their parents lives were, and how hard they struggled. It must have been tough, and I am sure for many it was. Just don’t forget. Because of Republican policies, it is getting tougher, and tougher, and tougher to ...

Appalachia Rising

Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...

PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →

All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →

On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →

Amped Status

By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...

Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...

+972

The question is whether Israel will ever realize that regardless of the somersaults it does to try and establish legitimate claims to to the land, its power will one day run out. So, Migron, the little illegal outpost that made big headlines in recent months, was finally evacuated in its entiret ...

In September 2011, the Israeli government approved the Prawer Plan for mass expulsion of the Arab Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) desert. If fully implemented, this plan will result in the forced displacement of tens of thousands Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel and the destruction of 35 “ ...

The last week of August saw a sharp increase in home and property demolitions by Israeli authorities after a relatively calm period during Ramadan. Now large-scale operations are forcing the displacement of many Palestinians, particularly targeting isolated communities in the South Hebron Hills. ...

From Pussy Riot to Women of the Wall, our male religious authorities are so intimidated by women mobilizing support for religious freedom and expression, that they feel the need to restrain, detain and jail this great potential for change. By Shira Pruce I admit that a few weeks ago, if you aske ...

Hagai Amir, accomplice in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was released in May after serving 16 years in jail. He discusses with +972 Magazine his pride in the assassin, his brother Yigal; his contacts with Hamas representatives in prison; his views on a binational state; and m ...

Matt Weidner Blog

Deustche Bank, who has filed thousands of lawsuits as trustee for trusts in the State of Florida, made big news this weekend by handing out millions of dollars. There is just one catch, homeowners weren’t targeted by the bank. Instead, millions were given to professional golfers for placin ...

From Matt Taibbi, one of the only reporters left in this country: And this is where we get to the hypocrisy at the heart of Mitt Romney. Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a “turnaround specialist,” a shrewd financial operat ...

We have such a disgustingly short attention span in this country….just a few short weeks ago, the bobble heads and the press were lauding the “Landmark Attorney General Foreclosure Settlement” The banks were being punished…..right? WRONG…….AND IT JUST GETS WOR ...

Forget about old school Chicago ward style politics…the corruption on display by the GOP in Tampa was off the charts. The ReTHUGliCON party was completely hijaked by the fascist neo cons, but in doing so they cut out even the hard right factions of the party. Rush Limbaugh was up in arms ...

This firm regularly looks at the released cases out of every circuit case in the state of Florida that concerns mortgage foreclosures. Today, the 5th DCA came out and reiterated what has been said many times before: that service of process must be strictly complied with. In Schofield v. Wells Fa ...

Vaccine Awakening

August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...

Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...

Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...

Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...

Posted: 2/21/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – like vaccines - and be allowed to make a voluntary choice about whether or to take the risk ...

2020 Science

Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...

Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan. Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor. The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...

Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it. But ...

Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...

Reader Supported News

Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...

Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...

Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...

“On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →

[Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →

[An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →

On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

Long-time food policy expert Mark Winne has seen this nation’s food movement follow a path that mirrors his own professional journey. More and more advocates are delving into policy to get support for the hands-on projects that were their first forays into food issues. As a result of this shift ...

Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda. (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.) Initially, the ...

I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans. The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics. These last two are methods ...

So my message for the next 5 or 6 years is to shift your investments away from Australia (and other virtuous but economically silly countries) and into countries promoting low energy prices (US and other countries where the environmental regulations and tax regimes allow production of electrici ...

Germany’s increasing coal consumption is part of a global return to the fossil fuel that’s cheaper than most alternatives. The amount of coal burned worldwide rose 5.4 percent to account for 30 percent of total energy use last year.

The subsidy effectively provides a real incentive for Fisker not to make the car work or to sell more cars but to cease production as soon as practically possible without incurring any risk for repayment of the subsidy.

Consumerist

New Best Buy CEO Hubert "Don't Call Me Q*bert" Joly is settling into his comfy new digs at the company's HQ this week, but the former hotel & restaurant chain exec says he plans to jump into the Best Buy pool with both feet by finding out what it's like to work for the retailer [...]

The cabin door is closed, you're tuning out and maybe reading a book as your flight attendants are in the aisle demonstrating all the safety features of... a condom? Say what now? Durex Poland pulled a considerably sassy prank on some airline passengers for the sake of making advertising gold, r ...

Applekid: I’m hoping to haunt the inventors of DRM when I’m dead. So far my spooky moan isn’t that great, but I’ll hit it eventually. Seen an especially funny, insightful, or useful comment? Nominate it for Comment of the Day by sending it to laura@consumerist.com by e-mail or Google Chat.

John had the money on hand to pay off the rest of his student loans all at once. Lenders don't seem to get a lot of customers approaching them to do this, since student loan debt generally has lower interest rates than consumer debt. At least we're guessing that they don't get very many customer ...

Fear of the inevitably ginormous fine she'd face after hanging onto a Chicago Public Library copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde for 78 years too long kept one woman from bringing the overdue back to its proper place. But thanks to the library's recent three-week amnesty period, th ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

National Journal: Whistleblowing Incentives for Lawyers? Image courtesy of wikimedia user Avjoska An interesting case before the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit deals with whether or not former corporate attorneys – who have access to privy information – may be parties on false clai ...

IBN Live (India): Whistleblower’s Niece Attacked in Bikaner Summary: The four-year-old niece of an Indian whistleblower was attacked and thrown against a wall in order to “get even” with her uncle. She has suffered permanent damage to her nervous system. Her whistleblower uncle has been trying ...

Seven Years after Katrina, New Orleans Still Has Defective Pumps Revealed by Whistleblower Summary: A US Army Corps of Engineers whistleblower revealed, years ago, major safety and reliability issues with the hydraulic pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. GAP National Securi ...

Tropical Storm Isaac, on the verge of becoming a hurricane, is headed toward Louisiana. Officials have pronounced New Orleans ready, while at the same time the governor urged people in low-lying areas and places outside of levee protection to leave for safe ground. The Army Corps of Engine ...

UK Progressive

By Sherwood Ross The United States has worked across Latin America to enrich private clients at the expense of the pauperized masses, Professor of Sociology Emeritus James Petras of Binghamton University, N.Y., charges. “Never in the 20th Century (1990-2001) were so many lucrative public monopo ...

by Robert Reich There is nothing Republicans would rather the American people forget more than George W. Bush, who doesn’t even have a bit-part at the GOP convention opening in Tampa. But W’s ghost may be there, anyway. The National Weather Service says tropical storm Isaac is now heading for Ne ...

by Wendell Potter for iWatch News While listening to the promises to repeal ObamaCare during the Republican National Convention, I was reminded of what those of us in the health insurance industry said when our friends in Congress were able to block passage of President Clinton’s health care ref ...

By Charley James Making a dent in the nation’s homeless problem might not be easy but it’s possible to draw a picture to show a way forward. At its core, there are five, broadly defined, component pieces to eliminating much of America’s homeless problem. And, yes, the devil is ...

by Robert Reich The most troubling economic trend facing America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top – among a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people – and the steady decline of the great American middle class. Inequali ...

JoNova

Anna Rose is the head of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. She visited us with Nick Minchin to film the doco “I can change your mind” and has produced a book called Madlands about the filming of the doco. Another author, David Mason Jones, has written a review and comes at this ...

A Disinformation Statement by the Armenian Meteoastrological Society (Adapted by AMS Archdruids 20 August 2012) As told to Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The following is an AMS Disinformation Statement calculated to provide an untrustworthy, prejudiced, and scientifically-outdated mi ...

The line that everyone seems to have missed (or become numbingly inured to) is one where Combet claims that Australians won’t be able to get rid of the carbon price even if they want to: “(Greg Combet) said the linkage of the schemes would make it more difficult for Mr Abbott to axe ...

Thanks to Steve Hunter Victoria’s windfarms have saved virtually no coal from being burnt. South Australian windfarms have saved 4% of their rated capacity in fossil fuels at a cost of $1,484 per ton. That’s only $1,474 above the current price of carbon credits per ton in the EU. The ...

The Australian Government,via Greg Combet, announced this week that Labor’s version of certainty is the kind that is un-certain. For two years they’ve been emphatically declaring that “Australia needs certainty” or it’s variant, “Business needs certainty&#8221 ...

ReNew America

(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...

(Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...

(Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...

(Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...

(Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...

At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...

Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

The source of the disinformation (once again) is David Morrison from NASA. Over at the SETI Institute is a 2012 Doomsday Fact Sheet. I’ve reproduced it in full, with my more expert opinion in red: There is widespread and unnecessary fear of doomsday on December 21, 2012. Some peopl ...

I used to really enjoy watching Bear Grylls on the TV – but after a while it got a bit repetitive (no problem with that, means that basic skills work in numerous scenarios). What really ruined it for me is how it was all a little bit fake. Unless they specifically stated that he spent all ...

I have frequently discussed the worrisome prospect of long-term power grid failures. NASA has acknowledged the risk, and it all it will take is a massive solar storm – like the Carrington Event of 1859. If the grid is down for months on end, it is expected that millions of people would die ...

I found this list in a book titled The Doom and Bloom™ Survival Medicine Handbook, and it seems to be comprehensive enough to give you piece of mind. Combine it with a doctor and a nurse and you’ll be just fine. Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Gray’s Anatomy for Students The Phys ...

I’m a skeptic at heart, but when things pass by BS detector I can be a believer of sorts. So while I dismiss Planet X, I believe there could be a scientific basis to the Long Count calendar. If I were to devote my time to writing about skeptical topics, I’d try to avoid saying things ...

Facing South

When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more

Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...

The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

One News Page

Denying any link with businessman Manoj Jayaswal against whom CBI has filed an FIR in the Coalgate scam, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said a wrong impression was being created that a relative of his was allocated a coal block. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago

The BSF identified spots along India’s boundary with Pakistan and Bangladesh vulnerable to crime, illegal migration and border firing. The highest number of such spots is in West Bengal on the eastern side and Jammu and Punjab on the western border. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago

Return of 17 Punjabi youths from Sharjah Jail has been further delayed after the Civil Court demanded closure certificates from the Supreme Court and the Appeal Court during a hearing held on Tuesday. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago

Oriental Review

On September 2, 1945, Japan, Nazi Germany’s last remaining ally, signed the act of unconditional surrender, putting the last dot in the history of the Second World War. The bloodiest war ever fought, it lasted 6 years, affected 40 countries and claimed 55 million lives. The historic signing cere ...

Turkey’s foreign policy is going through a fiasco. The leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party even accused the country’s foreign minister of “narrow-mindedness” on live television. A scandal erupted after RPP MPs from were prevented from inspecting a Syrian refugee camp. In 2009, Tur ...

Wars don’t happen by accident. Any armed conflict is prepared for and planned well in advance. That’s a fact. People living in an absolutely peaceful country sometimes aren’t even aware that their country has decided to go to war and preparations for it are already in full swing. To better under ...

Western policy makers admit that NATO’s operations in Libya have played the primary role in emboldening Al Qaeda’s AQIM faction (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb). The Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution’s Bruce Riedel in his article, “The New Al Qaeda Menace,” ...

Part I A feature common to the serial outbreaks of unrest in the course of the Arab Spring and the conflicts in the post-Yugoslavian space was the involvement of the armed opposition which had grown out of local criminal or downright terrorist groups in the resulting transitions. The Arab countr ...

BlogHer

Today is one of those days where I want to run away. I woke up this morning with a cloud just hanging over my head and feeling defeated by life. For as long as I can remember I've struggled with finding my identity and feeling claustrophobic with the world around me. As early as 10-years-old, I ...

[Editor's Note: This creamy casserole comes together quickly and bakes up in a flash, making it the perfect Quicker Dinners option for a night when you're really craving some comfort food. --Genie] Open Faced Croque Monsieurs This is one of those oops-I-just-ate-the-whole-pan types of dinners. ...

The speeches don't begin until Tuesday, but it's already a who's who of the political and media world gathered for the Democratic National Convention. There are delegates, journalists, and local families milling around uptown Charlotte. Ariana Huffington signs a book at the Huffington Post Oasi ...

Hubby and I decided to execute the greatest form of torture on our kids that we could think of... Family Game Night. Well, we didn't think it would be the greatest form of torture ever. We thought we had a few more years to go before Family Game Night was seen as torture. Apparently 10- and 7- ...

Mary Beth, blogger at Liberating Working Moms: One Voice at a Time, was featured in a CNN commercial. Photo Credit: Liberating Working Moms Billie Criswell, blogger at Bossy Italian Wife, was featured twice on HuffLive for a spot titled "Dude, You're Not Italian!" BlogHer Publishing Network ...

Health Freedom Alliance

The first ever GAO (Government Accountability Office) audit of the Federal Reserve was carried out in the past few months due to the Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill, which passed last year.

“Mom, you’re reading that, too!?” My 23-year-old-son, home for a visit, was astonished to see that each of us had picked up the same book: Susan Cain’sQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That ...

By James J. Gormley It is personally disappointing for me that Consumer Reports, the flagship of the respected marketplace-empowerment organization, Consumers Union, has once again seen fit to arm the American consumer with detrimental misinformation regarding safe, ...

Childhood fevers can be frightening, mostly because they are misunderstood. A fever is an increase in body temperature above the “normal range.” But the definition of “normal” can vary from person to person. Body temperature also ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation after new research turned up troubling findings about toxic chemicals in tattoo ink. Recently published studies have found that the inks can contain a host of ...

Live News Wire

Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...

The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...

At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...

The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

The good folks over at the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy have produced a fine report called the State of Working West Virginia 2012, which includes a chapter that provides a detailed primer on the state of West Virginia’s coal economy. In that chapter, called West Virginia’s M ...

Phil Smith at the United Mine Workers of America was kind enough to share this photograph he took recently of a union miner at the Cliffs Natural Resources Pinnacle Mine in Wyoming County. It’s a good day not only to spend time with family and friends, but to remember the workers who do so much ...

Gazette photo by Chip Ellis We have an update in this morning’s Gazette about the United Mine Workers of America’s new “Fighting for Fairness at Patriot” campaign, reporting this: Kelly Elswick mined coal for more than 30 years, finishing his career running a grader at th ...

Folks are going to be talking a lot about last night’s appearance by Clint Eastwood at the closing of the Republican National Convention, but as I watched events unfold, the really remarkable moment was when GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney started off this sentence: President Obama pr ...

Daniel Miessler

via cnn.com Unbelievable ignorance and bigotry. Just look at her face. She is a perfect representative of her side. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentJesus Is a Liberal Democrat | Comedy CentralVideo of the iPhone 4′s ResolutionCharter Cities &#1 ...

The essence of this lesson is: don’t worry about the schema. They used to spend a lot of time worrying about the database, keeping everthing nice and normalized. You shouldn’t have to worry about the database. Schema updates are very slow when you get bigger. Adding a column to 10 mil ...

As we have seen, skepticism is a broad and varied church — welcoming, among others, elitist, sexist and racist views. One thing all skeptics have in common, though, is that they support the freedoms they believe to exist in present-day western civilization, and think those freedoms should be spr ...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/romneys-acceptance-speech-to-avoid-mentionin… Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentPhenomenal Speech by a War VeteranStarving Third World Masses Warned Against Evils Of Contraception | The OnionLook, Are We Going To ...

HP Shadowlabs is looking for someone with extremely strong skills in the following areas: Linux Oracle InfoSec Uber sysadmin skills Wicked Problem Solving General kickassedness We’re looking for someone with a good amount of experience in these areas. People interested must be willing to d ...

Fitwatch

Police Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...

The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...

The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...

For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...

A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...

Worldwide Hippies

By Ars Moriendi,WWH/CJE – Can someone please explain to me why it is that this whole voter ID law feels so much like cheating? I won’t claim brilliance in the area of voter laws. To date I have only voted and helped other sign up to vote in my home state of South Carolina, thousands [...]

by Zack Whittaker and Charlie Osborne,cnet.com – Bruce Willis may not challenge Apple to who owns his iTunes collection after his death, but one question remains: What does happen to your downloaded music collection once you fly to the sky? Earlier today, a story emerged from the British t ...

From survivalinternational.org – A recent investigation by Brazil’s Indian affairs department FUNAI has uncovered shocking evidence that illegal loggers are rapidly closing in on the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe, sparking fears for their safety. Only three weeks ago, a government tea ...

Gaza teenager burns himself to death in poverty protest GAZA (Reuters) – A young man has died after setting himself on fire in the Gaza Strip, apparently in protest at economic hardship in the Palestinian enclave, the man’s family and police said on Monday. Ehab Abu Nada, 18, left hi ...

Hunger Games: The price of feeding the world Have banks been speculating on food markets and could this contribute to pushing millions into hunger and poverty? The World Development Movement, a UK-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has accused Barclays Bank of profiting from world hunger ...

reference frame

Among the fathers of quantum mechanics, Pascual Jordan is the least well-known one. Needless to say, politics is the single most important reason behind his invisibility although it is not necessarily the only one. While he genuinely believed in the ideals of the NSDAP that he joined at ...

As lots of media outlets such as HJ News point out, the WISE satellite assembled in Logan, Utah (Mitt Romney's mother's hometown) has observed millions of galaxies. WISE, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, is looking at the sky in the infrared. The mission ended in 201 ...

Seasonal and daytime variations in the gamma decay rate Several readers have directed my attention to a recent, May 2012 Stanford-Purdue-Israel preprint on the seasonal variations of the gamma decay: Analysis of Gamma Radiation from a Radon Source: Indications of a Solar Influence Th ...

In the article aptly titled "Light-Bulb Ban Casts Shadow over EU Democracy", The Spiegel reminds us, the Europeans, about an important change that will affect our continent starting from tomorrow, Saturday, September 1st, 2012. No, Germany isn't invading Poland in the same way as it did on Se ...

Tatumba 2.0

On the Wednesday, July 25th edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex welcomes long-time returning guest, economist, and contributing writer Paul Craig Roberts to discuss the assault on gun rights in the aftermath of the Colorado shooting, the West’s unsuccessful efforts to muster support for S ...

The Quebec election campaign was marked by confusion and contradiction, backtracking and barnstorming on some of the most contentious issues in the province. Here’s a look at some of the trends to watch in tonight’s result. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: 5 reasons to pa ...

Enviroblog

By Jason Rano, Director of Government AffairsIt's fair to say that I'm not a beach person. My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles. I have nightmarish memories of being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...

By Heather White, Environmental Working Group chief of staff Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...

By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern Let me guess. You, like most Americans, usually have a sandwich for lunch. Or maybe it's a panini or a wrap, if you want to get technical. Regardless, it's what you eat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

Quick Hits

The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...

MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...

Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...

Views & News from Norway

After a dramatic day of intense investigation, police confirmed that a body found in a forest at Kolbotn Monday night was that of missing 16-year-old Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne of Oslo. Two men have been arrested, both of them charged with her murder. One of the men, said to be an ethnic Norweg ...

The small but powerful political party best known for representing Norwegian farmers chose an unusual weekend to roll out its latest, often unpopular demands. Just as organizations promoting hiking and conservation were urging folks out into the great outdoors, a top Center Party official was sa ...

A new book that’s based on more than 7,000 e-mails sent and received by convicted mass murderer and right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik “is no page-turner, to put it mildly,” according to one Norwegian commentator. He thinks Breivik’s e-mail was downright “b ...

Housing prices rose again in Norway last month, to a level that now even worries real estate brokers. Homeowners and buyers, though, enjoy among the lowest property taxes in the world and politicians seem reluctant to raise or even impose them any time soon. Norway is generally known as a high-t ...

Police confirmed on Tuesday that they found a body in the woods behind an industrial area at Kolbotn, just south of Oslo, on Monday night. They wouldn’t rule out that it may be the body of 16-year-old Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne, who disappeared while on her way home just over a month ago. ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

Editor’s Note: I think there should be a law against not keeping campaign promises…. And for those voting in the upcoming U.S. elections, don’t forget — they lie. This week, OCA launched a SignOn petition asking Michelle Obama to tell the President it’s high t ...

Permaculture is such a hugely broad and challenging subject to teach. But it doesn’t have to be hard work. We can make permaculture education fun and interactive! by Theron Beaudreau How many of us have ever felt challenged by attempting to sum up permaculture into a 30 second ‘ele ...

Editor’s Note: When I’ve put posts like the following up in the past, some people have commented expressing their dissatisfaction for such articles being on a permaculture site (see here and here, for example). But, I make no apologies for putting this material up, as it directly re ...

Pointman's

I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...

He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...

Being a climate realist, I’m used to a certain underdog status. I’ve learnt that it’s our advantage. We don’t have many of those, so you learn to work them hard. While they yap a lot, we get told to shut up but we watch them carefully while they’re yapping. We don&# ...

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but notables of the green persuasion seem to win a lot of awards from various green organisations. They give prizes to each other, occasionally with a nice bit of money as well; sometimes with a very very nice bit of money. You may also have noticed, t ...

What is now called the European Union (EU), grew out of the aftermath of WWII, which had devastated both the economies and infrastructures of most countries in Europe. It was really the product of several treaties but the first big one was the 1957 treaty of Rome, which created a common market a ...

Journalists' Toolkit

There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...

This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...

How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...

I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...

A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org. Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The ...

1 Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011. Source: Census Bureau. 1 Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate. Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...

New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...

While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...

Information Underground

LL, perhaps you could call into Mr. Mike Rivero's show and discuss this matter with him. He is always yapping about the moon landings being 100% real.Statistics: Posted by scorpio — Tue Sep 04, 2012 4:36 pm

I agree none of them looked happy at all, but I think a good explanation of that is they were extremely run down emotionally and likely feeling very depressed. Yes. After winning the super bowl, I'll bet most players just want to crawl in bed and cry. The better explanation is that they are b ...

I listened to the audio program of Mr White, all I can say is he just brings up all the same points that are easily debunked by all the other moon hoax guests. He keeps pushing Apollo going through the Radiation In the Van Allan which is not true. On the Gulliani show, I remember them saying ho ...

Do the Jews Live Within the Belly of the Holy Serpent? Is he the Deity Whom the Jews Worship? By Texe Marrs “Ye serpents, ye generation (race or nation) of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” — Jesus Christ Matthew 23:33 If I were to tell you that in the religion of Judaism th ...

environment 360

A new study has found record levels of DDT in the breast milk of nursing women living in South African villages where the toxic pesticide has been used for decades. In samples taken from women in three malaria-stricken villages where spraying occurs inside homes, researchers found that DDT level ...

One quarter of Liberia’s total land area has been sold to logging companies over the last two years, a development that threatens widespread devastation in West Africa’s most heavily forested nation, a new investigation has found. According to a report by Global Witness, Save My Future Foundatio ...

This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock. These extreme events were not freak occurrences – this is how the Earth works no ...

Danish scientists say they have developed a process to detect the presence of fish and whales in local waters through the DNA analysis of water samples, an innovation that will help researchers more safely monitor biodiversity in the world’s oceans. Using sophisticated DNA sequencing technology, ...

The incandescent light bulb, in use for more than a century, will be officially banned across the European Union on September 1. Over the past three years, the Wikimedia Commons EU has been phasing out 60-watt and 100-watt incandescent bulbs, and on Saturday retailers will no longer be all ...

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By David@Sixthestate.net Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind seeing a Conservative politician writing a column for CBC. Even if he is a creationist. But I’m dismayed to see, once again, a spirited defence of the “left-wing media” myth being promulgated here in Canada, especially by the state broadc ...

By Montreal Simon It was good to see that some of the soldiers who took part in the Dieppe Raid were able to make it back to that bloody beach today. And that so many people in the town turned out to greet them like heroes. I’m also glad that we may finally know the [...]

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By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...

By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...

Japan Times

The Reconstruction Agency said Tuesday it will aim to allow evacuees to return in two years to zones in Fukushima Prefecture where preparations are under way for lifting emergency off-limits orders. The agency specified the goal in a grand plan for 12 municipalities where evacuation zones were ...

The government is expected to assign phone numbers starting with 070, a code currently assigned to personal handyphone system phones, to new mobile phone subscriptions starting in the second half of 2013, officials said Tuesday. The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry released a draft ...

Environment Minister Goshi Hosono expressed reluctance Tuesday to run in this month's Democratic Party of Japan presidential election despite internal calls for him to take on Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. Although most political insiders and observers believe Noda will most likely be re-elec ...

Officially — at least in their comments — NFL players and coaches aren't concerning themselves with refereeing. The NFL and its locked-out officials weren't talking two days before the season begins, a clear indication replacements will be on the field for Wednesday night's opener. ...

President Barack Obama's economic report card is at best mediocre. I'd give him a C+, while acknowledging that presidents usually don't much influence the economy. It's too big and subject to too many complex forces, from new technologies to global conditions. Moreover, policy levers are share ...

Making It Count - CCPA

Further to my earlier post on the “own goal” scored by the Fraser Institute report on North American labour markets, the Table below shows the rankings of the Canadian provinces – out of 60 states and provinces – for (1) labour market performance, 2007-11 and (2) the unio ...

The sector and financial-flow accounts released with today’s GDP figures indicate an expansion of the pool of dead money flagged by this blog and by Mark Carney. The National Balance Sheet Accounts have not yet been released for the second quarter, so we cannot update the accumulated total of $5 ...

A release by the Fraser Institute – Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States, 2012 Edition – registers as a spectacular own goal. The Fraser Institute believes – and argues in this study – that strong unions, high minimum wages and high levels of public se ...

Saskatchewan Federation of Labour president Larry Hubich and I have the following joint op-ed in today’s Regina Leader-Post (page A10). It’s been fourteen years since I first wrote into The Leader-Post advocating a minimum-wage increase. Why higher wages make economic sense Recent Saskatchewan g ...

News that multi-year Arctic sea ice was melting towards a record low did not put a dent in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s annual northern road show last week. So far in August, the Arctic has lost about 75,000 square kilometres of ice every day. To put this into perspective, the sea ice area be ...

ReDress

Alan Hart outlines a strategy for saving the Palestinian cause from extinction: making Israel accountable for its occupation by dissolving the quisling Palestinian Authority and exposing Zionism's propaganda, and mobilizing Palestinians everywhere to engage by peaceful and democratic means in th ...

Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's bizarre letter to the Middle East "Quartet", in which he accused the Palestinian Authority of "diplomatic terrorism", is a symptom of an attention-seeking disorder rooted in the fact that Lieberman is underemployed.

Jamal Kanj argues that Israeli expansionism and Western connivance with and complacency towards Israel's land grabbing - not the Palestinian quest for state recognition at the UN - are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...

Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...

Physics Today

BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...

Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...

Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).

Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...

Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

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Peakwater

“The Narmada Valley Project, of which the Omkareshwar Dam is part of, is one of the most controversial development projects in the world. The project is plagued with proven claims of adverse environmental impacts to say the least. Allegations of – absence or partially executed and bi ...

“Foqaha’s case isn’t unique. Instead, according to human rights groups, it represents a growing inability among Palestinian farmers to engage in sustainable agriculture in the occupied West Bank. Almost 63 per cent of arable agricultural land in the West Bank is located in Area ...

Photo retrieved from: www.chinadialogue.net “cd: We’ve seen a lot of public debate over water transfer projects. What role and impacts do regional water transfers have? How should we evaluate all the projects getting under way? See ”China’s South-North water transfer is ‘ ...

“The drought, India’s first since 2009, will not cause a shortage of staples as the nation’s grain stores are overflowing with rice and wheat, and sugar output is set to exceed demand for a third straight year. But the drought will deal a devastating blow to grain crops used fo ...

“The National Park Service reported this week that adult Chinook (king) salmon have been seen in the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, less than five months after removal began on the Elwha Dam. According to the Park Service, the fish are the first of their kind known to enter the park ...

D. Kucinich

Cleveland, Ohio (August 31, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement after a judge in Ohio overturned a state law and allowed in-person early voting leading up to the election in November. “Today is a good day for our democracy. This is a step in the right direct ...

This Labor Day, President Obama has the opportunity to defend the economic rights of millions of Americans by supporting a substantial increase in the minimum wage. Presently $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage is inadequate. The purchasing power of a worker earning minimum wage in 1968 is ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement upon learning of the passing of Neil Armstrong, the legendary astronaut who inspired all humanity: “Neil’s voyage to the moon carried the hopes of a nation and reminded the world for all time that in America nothing is ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of an investigation of tainted jerky treats for dogs made in China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been investigating consumer complaints for five years while th ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke at a crowded memorial ceremony for the late Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal was a prolific author and a close personal friend to Congressman Kucinich as well as a public and vocal supporter of Congressman Kucinich’s political career. Also speaking at the m ...

GOP Shocker: Value-Added Tax Plank 09-04-2012 • Barron’s The 2012 Republican Platform calls for a complete overhaul of the federal tax system. No surprise there. But then it endorses a value-added tax or national sales tax as one possible solution to the nation’s b ...

…WHY…? Because Arizona Governor Jan Brewer ha$ campaign IOU’s to pay off … at our expense of course … Why are we building private prisons when crime is down? 09-02-2012 • Arizona Republic On Friday, the state of Arizona plans to award one lucky – or perhaps just well connected ...

…Who’s Responsible For the Explosion In Government Spending… Mention anything about the US’s huge debt, deficit, and debt-ceiling problem, and fans of both political teams will immediately begin shouting at each other. Republicans howl that the whole problem is the fault of President ...

50 years too late… thalidomide drug maker issues an ‘apology’ to victims (NaturalNews) Remember thalidomide, developed for morning sickness and prescribed to pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s? The aftermath of this Big Pharma fiasco left around 10,000 re ...

Popular Technology

"I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...

Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...

Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...

As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...

SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...

Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...

Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...

Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.

Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...

Science - NZ Herald

One of the world's largest and most controversial bio-tech companies is keen to bring its GM crop technology to New Zealand.But it may be more than a decade before the country has the genetically modified commercial crops to use...

New Zealand has been issued an ultimatum by GM heavyweights - change our tune on genetically modified food or watch our exporting lifeblood lag behind the rest of the world.The warning was delivered yesterday by a high-powered panel...

A major conference bringing together the world's biggest players in genetic modification opened to the angry chants of protesters yesterday.The week-long international agricultural biotechnology conference is being described by...

Some of the brightest young scientific minds in the Asia/Pacific region, including five students from New Zealand, yesterday completed a week-long immersion in cutting-edge science in Jerusalem featuring lectures by five Nobel Prize...

The Bovine

From Stuff.co.nz: “A South Island company is setting a precedent by selling raw milk to consumers. But plans to set up franchises around the country have stalled while other farmers await the outcome of a Ministry of Primary Industries review … Continue reading →

From Mark Purdey, in Acres USA: ACRES U.S.A. What led you into your consideration of Mad Cow disease to your findings, which are somewhat at variance with the conventional wisdom? PURDEY. It all started in 1984, appropriately, when I was visited by a … Continue reading →

From Eric Mortensen, The Oregonian: “In late July, investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor visited three blueberry farms in Marion County and announced finding “widespread” record-keeping and minimum wage violations at each. Farm labor law investigations are often conte ...

From Ethan A. Huff, at Natural News: “(NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently engaged in a massive fear mongering campaign that would have everyone in America believe that the so-called West Nile virus (WNv) is spreading … Continue reading ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

I have been calling for a base metals bust for some time, fueled by a slowdown in China. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets has been saying the same thing. Indeed, it is analysis from Pettis that influenced my views in the first place. Pettis now believes commodity prices will collap ...

Those looking for evidence the US is already in recession (and has been since June) need look no further than the August Manufacturing ISM Numbers released today. IndexAugustJulyChangeDirectionRate of ChangeTrend in Months PMI™49.649.8-0.2ContractingFaster3 New Orders47.148.0-0.9Contrac ...

Central bankers Debating the Limits of Power in Jackson Hole are wondering what's holding back the economy. "What is holding the economy back? Why is it that we've had such incredibly accommodative monetary policy for so long (but) we've had so little growth? I think it remains a puzzle," sa ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Nothing could be more antithetical to the very idea of individual freedom than to have governments telling us that we must put some substance in our bodies. Without ownership of our body and the attendant right to refuse this or that medicine as we see fit, we are nothing more than slaves of the ...

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Recent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...

From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...

bloody crossroads

The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →

Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →

For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →

Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

The damaged MSC FLAMINIA has started its trek back to German waters via the English Channel where the ship will eventually undergo salvage operations, the vessels management company says. Germany’s [...]

East Africa’s “Big-Three” counter-piracy forces warned Tuesday that despite a recent downturn in global piracy incidents, shipowners should not let their guard down. In a recent report published by the [...]

(Bloomberg) — BP Plc, whose Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico caused the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, is drilling the first producing wells at the region’s Atlantis field since a [...]

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...

The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...

More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...

Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...

The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...

A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...

Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...

Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...

The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

There were 505 U.S. bases in Iraq, from tiny outposts to mega-establishments, but how many are there in Afghanistan? 400? 450? 550? 1500?! The situation is confused and confusing, but I attempt to sort it out in my latest TomDispatch article: “Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza.” Afghanistan ...

Police officers stands next to a damaged police car after demonstrators occupied the local government building during a protest against an industrial waste pipeline under construction in Qidong, Jiangsu Province July 28, 2012. Reuters

University students with their necks painted protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Nov. 3, 2011. Their signs read in Spanish “We have the right to be outraged,” left, and “Excellent education and for all!!” Students are protesting education reforms planned by the government th ...

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